Consolidating multiple excel files

This article will walk through the basic flow required to parse multiple Excel files, combine the data, clean it up and analyze it.

Alternatively, you can use Power Query in Excel 2013, renamed Get and Transform in Excel 2016, but those features require far more experience with database queries than the average Excel user has accumulated at this point.

Fortunately, Microsoft Query is an alternative that is available in all versions of Excel that can guide you through the process.

I hope it will give you ideas of how to apply these tools to your unique situation.

Today we going to explore just that – how to merge multiple Excel Workbook spreadsheets into a single Workbook. As this is also a typical scenario I have modified the above Test procedure to accommodate just that: Sub Test Merge Directory() Dim file Names() As String, curr Index As Long, file Name As String, directory As String directory = This Workbook.

Use the Categoricals are a pandas data type, which correspond to categorical variables in statistics: a variable, which can take on only a limited, and usually fixed, number of possible values (categories; levels in R).